BBG - Soft poweroff does not work

[Steven Hirsch]

Title says it.  After updating to Debian 8.4 I find that the power button no longer turns off the system.  With older distros I could press power once and the unit would gracefully shut down completely.  Now, I have to hold it for a period of time. The unit will eventually shut off, then immediately reboot again.
Am I missing something?

[William Hermans]

$ sudo apt-get install acpid

Give that a whirl, it should fix your issue. You changed images didnt you ? from LXDE image to one of the command line images. Right ?

On Mon, Sep 5, 2016 at 7:08 AM, Steven Hirsch <snhi...@gmail.com> wrote:

Title says it.  After updating to Debian 8.4 I find that the power button no longer turns off the system.  With older distros I could press power once and the unit would gracefully shut down completely.  Now, I have to hold it for a period of time. The unit will eventually shut off, then immediately reboot again.
Am I missing something?

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[William Hermans]

If by chance that does not work for you. Use the latest image. Jessie 8.5 I believe. It works, or at least works for me, with the beaglebone black or beaglebone green.